Hi Everyone! Our Architecture Patterns and Practices team just announced the latest revision for Enterprise Library! Quick Links: – MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/entlib – Community Forum: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119312 – Community Extensions: http://codeplex.com/entlibcontrib What is Enterprise Library? Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges…

Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider. You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to…

Good news for WPF developers, the WPF Control Toolkit is evolving rapidly. The kit is available from the WPF codeplex site (http://www.codeplex.com/wpf). There’s a brand new release available with v1 of the DataGrid. There’s also a DatePicker/Calendar control and a preview of VisualStateManager (VSM). If you are not familiar with VSM, then have a look…

It is the newly announce Microsoft’ Services Platform -> Azure Services Platform! The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. Azure’s flexible and interoperable platform can be used to…

Thinking about profiling your WPF applications to find out where the performance bottlenecks are? Check out the newly improved WPF Performance Profiling tool at http://windowsclient.net/wpf/perf/wpf-perf-tool.aspx if you haven’t had the chance, I highly recommend this new version! The WPF Performance blog also has quite a few good performance related posts and resources. H I G…

Part of the survey result was overwhelming feedback about hands on experiences during our dev events. I know that trying to do these at work is nearly impossible because of all the other work priorities and interruptions, but with the Virtual labs you can do them from anywhere – a coffee shop with wireless is…